It must agree to an amendment to the constitution that would return political balance to North and South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The First Amendment of the Constitution supports religious freedom and places religion outside the reach of the government.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Seventy-two years later the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

After the Civil War in the eighteen sixties, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Then,in nineteen seventy-one, the twenty-sixth amendment to the Constitution set the voting age at eighteen.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees free speech and a free press.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

That came with passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The court is also scheduled to consider whether a law that prohibits pictures of animal cruelty constitutes a violation of free speech under the 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Last year, the court ruled the 2nd amendment to the U.S.Constitution's protects the right of an individual citizen to own a handgun in the District of Columbia, a federally governed enclave.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06